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A complete issue · 32 pages · 1900

Wildcat Bob, the Boss Bruiser

1900 · Free to read

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About this issue

This Edward L. Wheeler serial presents a frontier crime narrative spanning mining camps and railroad lines. Chapter I depicts the initiation of outlaw Jake Corrigan into the Bloodhound Band, a criminal organization operating from an abandoned railroad site in Kansas. Under orders from a masked leader, Corrigan places an unconscious young woman across railroad tracks during a violent thunderstorm; the approaching express train kills her, completing his brutal initiation. Chapter II shifts to Pompeii's Gulch, a gold-mining settlement experiencing a rainstorm. A gang of rough Kansas border ruffians, led by a large brutish man, arrives at the Heifer Shebang saloon announcing their intention to terrorize the town. The narrative emphasizes action, violence, and lawless frontier characters operating in remote Western locations.

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“Wildcat Bob, the Boss Bruiser; or, the Border Bloodhounds” by Edward L. Wheeler · serial · p.2

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